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Computers have become part of our lives everyday. Almost every day we use computers to do our jobs everyday. There are so many alternative software (software) we can use to do office work and our homes. One of them is open source software or OSS software.

Open source software starts with a campaign to provide and use the software for free. Also any software that includes open source software (open source) have the source code (source code) are freely downloaded and distributed by embracing certain principles and ethics. The development will be by a particular community and they will exchange information to develop software for the better.

Why Use Open Source Software?

Why should use open source software? In the daily work with computers, we may often use some commercial software that is known as Microsoft Windows as the operating system, Microsoft Office for office applications, Adobe Photoshop and Corel Draw as an application for design and image, Microsoft Visio as an application to create diagram, Microsoft Outlook to read and receive e-mail or Microsoft Project as an application for project management. But you know, that the software mentioned above has a license price of the units of hundreds to thousands of dollars a software? If you invest your money to buy some original software into the computer, of course you have to spend thousands of dollars for a computer. Of course you also do not want to break the law by using illegal software is not it?
Because that’s available variety of open source software that can be downloaded free of charge and freely distributed. In addition, because built by a community of information exchange throughout the world, this type of software developed quite well.

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Some time ago, someone asked about how to care for HP brand printers here. I promised to give the answer in a separate posting. Well, now is the time I post about tips how to care for HP printers.

These tips can be used for users of laserjet printers. Just unfortunately, I do not know the types because is so many.

The tips is as follows.
1. Note voltage / electric power. Most printers are damaged due to the absence of a stable electrical protection, try using a stabilizer with a servo motor system.
2. Do not ever try to force remove paper jammed / stuck with force, if forced to, try to pull the paper out in the same direction as the printer to print, but it would be better if you immediately took it to the service, rather than forced and had to replace spare parts, usually the subject is part of the film, and the gear that is easy to fall out / damaged at the time of paper drawn by force.
3. Keep your chips “strapless wire” not to fall on the tray / paper place, or the holes of the printer, this is caused because the printer heating technology using plastic film that will easily torn when exposed by sharp objects, and the resulting paper blisters and printouts are not perfect (no patches).
4. If you are finished using the printer, immediately turn off. Do not turn on the printer for too long, let alone all night when not in use, plus if you use printer is plugged directly into electricity without the stabilizer.
5. If you want to print something on any other media containing plastic materials, such as stickers or transparent paper, make sure first that the media heat. If the media is not resistant to heat, it can melt the media / melt in the printer and will cause damage. My advice, try using the original media from the manufacturer, for example, use of paper / other media made the original HP.
6. Never force that had leaked toner to print, this will cause the accumulation of toner grains on heating, which eventually resulted in the toner stuck on the heater and roller from the printer. Later on, the printer will be disabled when printing.
7. Try to keep every 5-6 months in the service your printer. The goal is to clean the inside of the toner powder grains. There’s a saying, better to prevent than to cure isn’t it?
That’s some tips for brand HP laser printers. Sorry if there are still many shortcomings, maybe someone can add?

Do You Feel Really Safe

What do you know about the hacker? If you do not know? Yes, all our activities at the computer, let alone connected to the network / online, is not necessarily safe.
This time, I will discuss about the tips to protect your Gmail account. Apparently, this one thing can not be separated from the danger of attacks by hackers.

5 Tips To Protect Your Gmail Account

computermdbismarck.com – Typically, computer users rely on one or several antivirus installed to ward off evil computer viruses, the goal is to prevent the virus into the application or document.

How to game applications? Typically, antivirus which includes all the applications in use, it will be  software applications, documents, or any files containing viruses. Now, the famous anti-virus companies, Symantec, which issued a Norton product, issued a special anti-virus for gamers with the name of Norton Antivirus 2009 Gaming Edition.

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computermdbismarck.com – Pop-up ads are those irritating ads and messages that pop up on your screen whenever you’re online. There are three major causes of pop-up ads:

• Web sites that display some extra ads each time you request to view a specific page.
• Messenger Service ads that sneak in through the Windows Alerter service (originally designed to allow network administrators to contact users within a corporate network).
• “Free” software you download and install, not realizing that those programs earn revenues by displaying pop-up ads on you screen.

Dealing with the first two types of ads is relatively easy. You can use a simple pop-up blocker like the Google toolbar to block those ads.

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